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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 393: Waking Drives, GPS Pictures, App Associations & Speed!

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2012

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

John and Dave wrap up April’s final Premium show with some fantastic questions (and their best answers!) on topics including drives mysteriously waking from sleep, finding embedded GPS picture data, changing app associations, and much, much more. Tune in today (and by “tune in” we, of course, mean subscribe, download, press play) and enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek

0:02.0

Geek Cab number 393 premium for Thursday April 19th, 2012. Oh, I'm a good. Oh, I'm...

0:14.0

Oh, well. Oh, well. Thanks,

0:22.0

the it's folks and welcome to the Mac Observers, Mac Geek,

0:28.0

the show where you send in your questions,

0:30.0

you send in your tips,

0:31.0

we provide some answers, we provide some tips. We do some research on your behalf and together the goal is to all learn

0:38.0

Quite a few things new each time here in sunny Durham, New Hampshire in the morning. I'm Dave

0:45.2

Hamilton. Here in favorable Connecticut, John F. Brown.

0:50.0

Awesome. How you doing John?

0:53.0

Just getting the coffee going here.

0:56.0

All right, yeah, it's just shortly after 9 a.m. for John and I today, which is earlier than usual for us but a good time to podcast don't you think?

1:07.0

Sure.

1:09.0

Sure.

1:10.0

All right.

1:12.0

Perhaps we should just dive right in and then let the show take us where it shall.

1:18.0

Craig, okay, Craig writes, my favorite Mac geeks, I have a situation I thought you might find interesting.

1:25.0

I have a 27 inch iMac purchased just after the first of the year.

1:29.0

It has a 256 gig SSD as a boot drive and a 1 terabyte conventional hard drive for

1:34.3

data that's my data drive as you might success as you might success I don't know where I

1:39.6

came up with that as you might suspect it has nothing on it but data that is my iTunes

1:44.8

library photos etc. I notice that the data drive will spin up throughout the day

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